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  1. My god. I was searching for a clip from Frasier, the original Cheers spinoff, and came across this clip from the reboot. Holy crap, it looks even worse than I imagined. Does my necro-bump confirm that the show no longer has any apologists? This looks awful.

    (Although Lilith — still would. Don’t judge.)

     

  2. 6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Maybe you just missed a lesson or two because it seems fairly straight forward 

     

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    Ftr:

    Revelation 13:16-17

    New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

    16 Also, it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be given a brand on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the brand, that is, the name of the beast or the number for its name.

    The chapter concludes with verse 18:

    18 This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number for a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six.

    There’s a footnote to that:

    ”Other ancient authorities read six hundred sixteen

    The full chapter:

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation 13&version=NRSVUE

  3. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    From my office. I had a clear view from my window and had my glasses. We had 95% here and it got dim and spooky for a bit. Was kinda cool.

    Ah. You watched a partial eclipse through your office window. No wonder you didn’t get it. Sorry you missed the totality. It’s a completely different experience. There's no comparison. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Dont mistake stimulant fueled nighttime rage with "stress.”

    He also geneuinely beleives it's fake news that not everyone loves him. It's all a minority of deep state actors keeping him from power and adoration. I wouldn't try to justify the behavior of a narcissist through the lense of normal humans. Cognitive Dissonance is the most powerful force in the universe. 

    Judge him through the lens of a narcissist whose view of his own importance, strength, ability, intelligence, and capability is utterly divorced from reality. I’m pretty sure he genuinely feels the threat of potential jail time for his (many) crimes. 

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  5. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I think his narcissism doesn’t allow him to stress. 

    I think his narcissism causes him a lot of stress because most Americans constantly refuse to shower him with the love and praise and adoration and unquestioned admiration he thinks he deserves. Look at how the North Koreans (that he sees) treat Kim Jong Un. He genuinely believes that’s how Americans should see him. It drives him crazy that most of us don’t. 

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  6. 16 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    In the “no shit” category - lower IQ related to conservative beliefs:

    Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

    Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis , Emily A. Willoughby , James J. Lee

    A B S T R A C T

    Intelligence has been found to be associated with a range of political beliefs including liberalism (Carl, 2014), anti-racism (Deary, Batty, & Gale, 2008), support for the EU and NATO (Oskarsson et al., 2014), free speech (De Keersmaecker, Bostyn, Van Hiel, & Roets, 2021), tolerance (Lasker & McNaughton, 2022) and anti-authoritarianism (Choma & Hanoch, 2017).

    Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. 

    This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. 

    We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over 300 biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. 

    Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. 

    Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.

    Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.

    I wonder if there’s a correlation between intelligence and the responsible practice of citing one’s sources when posting on the internet. 

  7. 13 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Aside from an hour long totality being silly and making no sense at all, why wouldn’t all totalities along the center line be the same length of time every eclipse?  Isn’t it just the speed of the moon and rotation of the earth?  

    The proximity of the moon to the earth depending on its orbit I’m sure is a factor.

    (Oh, already covered I see.)

  8. 9 hours ago, Satchel said:

    Somebody help me understand how DEI causes injury to those in the dominant culture college campuses in Texas? 

    Whitey doesn’t like seeing black people being treated equally. They especially don’t like running into black people who are smarter than they are. They really, really, really get freaked out about the possibility of getting beat out for the affections of a white woman by a black man. 

  9. Have we learned nothing? Don’t believe a word Trump says. If he gets back into office, he’ll enact a national ban to secure the loyalty of the hardline extremists he needs to keep him in power for the rest of his life. Don’t fall for his lies.

    It’s amazing that anyone still takes the shit he says seriously. 

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  10. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Wonder if he will magically become anti Trump again now

    No. He won’t. Because Trump may or may not have any kompromat over him. If he does, it’s not that Lindsey’s gay, it’s about some little boy(s) he’s diddled. But it could just be that Lindsey has a craven lust for being close to power. He’s like the cheerleader who just wants to date the captain of the football team. The starting QB. It’s about status in a world that parallels the social dynamics of high school. 

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  11. That Dark Star > Sugar Mag > Caution is so badass. The Dark Star turns very Sugar Mag-ish for quite awhile before they make the segue. And the segue is really smooth. So is the segue from Sugar Mag into Caution. Phil starts playing it during the closing climax of Sunshine Daydream and Billy picks it up then off they go. That whole suite is pretty, well, sweet. Seriously, though, the jam from Dark Star into Sugar Magnolia is special.

    I left for home a little after totality, while the eclipse was still going on, and threw on disc 3. The Dark Star played while things were still a little shadowy and I was still buzzing over what I’d just seen (emotionally, not chemically), then by SSDD the eclipse was over and I was grooving in full sunlight. It was pretty sweet.

    I listened to Dark Side of the Moon yesterday to get ramped up for the event. This isn’t the Dead but it’s Dead family and it fits too.

     

  12. 11 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    Man, that was fucking incredible. We ended up on the shore of Richland-Chambers lake at a public boat ramp park and there were only 3 other cars out there to see the eclipse. The clouds started to break on the way out there and by the time we started to notice it getting darker it was pretty much clear. We had ~3:30 of totality pretty much unobscured, so I'm very glad we decided to take the kids out of school and still go for it.

    Thank you to the people on this thread for saying 99% isn't in the same ballpark as 100%. Taking the glasses off and observing totality withe naked eyes is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. We could've stayed home and seen 98% coverage, but... ain't no fucking ballpark, ain't even the same league, it ain't even the same fucking sport.

    No traffic at all going or coming. Got back home around 4pm and the heavens opened up about 4:15. I'm feeling so damn lucky that everything came together like it did and that we got to experience it as a family.

    Yep, I listened to a guy on NPR a month or so ago talking about how you should do whatever you can to get in the path of totality, and as deep into it as you can get. He emphasized how precious it is and how you should try to get as much time in totality as possible. He was right.

    I could’ve stayed home, gone to the northernmost part of Dublin and seen 1:23 of totality. I could’ve stopped in Delaware and seen 2:35 of totality. Instead I drove on to Marion and got 3:34 of totality. Every extra second of jaw-dropping wonder was worth it. I’m so lucky that I could leave a little after noon and be back around 5:00. 

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  13. Home, home again. (I like to be here when I can.)

    Traffic was worse on the way home than it was on the way there but I took the “scenic route” on the way home. Bad idea. (It was scenic, though.) What a successful day. Congrats to everyone who got to see it. I feel very fortunate to have finally gotten to see a total solar eclipse. I doubt I’ll ever see another. Truly remarkable. 

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  14. I made it to Marion, OH by about 1:30. Stopped at a Speedway to relieve myself. I was heading toward the fairgrounds but then I was passing by Harding High School and noticed an almost empty parking lot with these two ladies parked and sitting in their chairs. There are only a few other cars in the lot. I’m counting 9 total not including mine. It’ll probably fill up more by eclipse time but I got a good spot close to the exit for easy getaway. Eclipse glasses passed the test. I’m ready to go.

    Here are my neighbors:

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